Salesforce.com reports $20.8 million loss

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Salesforce.com Inc.
CRM, -0.96%
on Thursday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $20.8 million, or 14 cents a share, on revenue of $835 million, compared with a loss of $4.1 million, or 3 cents a share, on $632 million in sales in the year-ago quarter. Excluding one-time items, the cloud-based business-software company would have have earned 51 cents a share. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had forecast Salesforce to earn 40 cents a share on $830.8 million in revenue. For its first-quarter, Salesforce estimates it will earn between 40 cents and 42 cents a share. excluding one-time items, on sales of $882 million to $887 million.

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